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تركمان

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

ترما رم ترما ورم [ The Turkumán; ] a certain people, or race, of the Turks; [absurdly said to be] so called because two hundred thousand of them became believers in one month; wherefore they said لَا تَرَمَا [the Turks of belief]; which was afterwards contracted into تُرْكُمَانٌ: (K, TA:) [a coll. gen. n.: n. un., and rel. n., تُرْكُمَانِىٌّ:] pl. تَرَاكِمَةٌ. (TA.)

Derived headwords

ترما
  1. 1.
لَا تَرَمَا